Re: Bug#109577: version 1.23 available
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:29:18AM -0400, David Kamholz wrote:
> How about including 1.23 in sid? I thought the freeze only affected woody.
There are problems:
1. e2fsprogs ships libraries and header files, and any of the packages
using those (dump, mc, ...) would get built with the wrong version of
the headers/libs even for fixes that should be propagated to woody
2. if 1.23-x is in sid, and a fix for 1.22 is required for woody, then
it cannot be done correctly, as the new package should go through sid,
and this wouldn't be possible. Even if we bump the epoch to get
1:1.22-5 >> 1.23-1, then the people running sid would get a problem
because their 1.23 would get downgraded
This looks like a major problem with the current implementation of
testing - one more that would advocate direct uploads into testing, or
at least through a testing-fixes.
That would allow maintainers to do maintainance of a "stable" version
in testing, while still doing development on a sid version, when just
using "experimental" is inadequate.
[Repliers to debian-release, please CC: me]
Regards,
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